Politico Publisher Robert Allbritton Buys Capital New York

Robert Allbritton, the founder and publisher of Politico, has purchased Capital New York, the news site dedicated to this great city. Josh Benson and Tom McGeveran, who founded Capital New York in 2010, will continue to run the site as co-editors. Politico’s co-founder and executive editor Jim VandeHei will serve as president of Capital New York.

Allbritton has plans to expand Capital New York now that he owns it. He will hire over two dozen staffers and revamp the website at some point later this year.

“I have very big ambitions for Capital: to do in New York what we did in Washington with Politico,” Allbritton said in a statement. “I believe powerfully that nonpartisan publications with an intense focus on a specific set of topics can break though quickly, editorially and financially. I’m excited to take the impressive work Benson and McGeveran did with Capital to the next level.”

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